2024 Paris Olympics

[pbiflyer]

Is Wojo coaching the US?

[MuggsyB]

This is bad.  It might be time to wake the F up. 

[MuggsyB]

Is Wojo coaching the US?

I was thinking the same thing!!  WTF?

[MuggsyB]

Momentum  just shifted after pbi got upset. 

[MuggsyB]

Problems.  Stewart and Young have been brutal. 

[pbiflyer]

Momentum  just shifted after pbi got upset.

I will gratefully accept the gold.

[CreightonWarrior]

Not quite the same as KD'd toe on the line 3.

[MuggsyB]

I will gratefully accept the gold.

We were very fortunate and thankfully you got us the win. 

[Scoop Snoop]

Great game, and once again an impressive performance by France. It is becoming easier to understand he NBA 's French selections in the draft. Just kidding about that, but damn they gave the US a couple of tough games. I would rather have the two wins that had to be earned than the 25+ point blowout that Mr. Darkness wanted last night.

[MU82]

I really enjoyed the game, loved that a talented U.S. team had to work so hard to earn that gold medal. So much drama and such a gut-check.

They got major contributions from some who hadn't played much, especially Kahleah Copper. Sometimes that's what it takes even for great teams like this to win.

[MuggsyB]

Great game, and once again an impressive performance by France. It is becoming easier to understand he NBA 's French selections in the draft. Just kidding about that, but damn they gave the US a couple of tough games. I would rather have the two wins that had to be earned than the 25+ point blowout that Mr. Darkness wanted last night.

Very poor analysis..  No rational person would say this was "a great game".  It was poorly played by both teams on a myriad of levels.  A competitive game doesn't make it " a great game".  It was a heavy dose of poor fundamentals, coaching, execution, and shot making.  The USA missed about 15 chippies, kicked the ball away, and shot an abysmal percentage.  They were very fortunate pbi saved them.  And the game also could have used Caitlin Clark.  It was asinine she didn't make the team and not based on her name, but her game. 

[lawdog77]

Very poor analysis..  No rational person would say this was "a great game".  It was poorly played by both teams on a myriad of levels.  A competitive game doesn't make it " a great game".  It was a heavy dose of poor fundamentals, coaching, execution, and shot making.  The USA missed about 15 chippies, kicked the ball away, and shot an abysmal percentage.  They were very fortunate pbi saved them.  And the game also could have used Caitlin Clark.  It was asinine she didn't make the team and not based on her name, but her game.

IMO, Clark would have had double digit turnovers versus this French defense

[MU82]

Very poor analysis..  No rational person would say this was "a great game".  It was poorly played by both teams on a myriad of levels.  A competitive game doesn't make it " a great game".  It was a heavy dose of poor fundamentals, coaching, execution, and shot making.  The USA missed about 15 chippies, kicked the ball away, and shot an abysmal percentage.  They were very fortunate pbi saved them.  And the game also could have used Caitlin Clark.  It was asinine she didn't make the team and not based on her name, but her game.

You're boatloads of fun, Muggs.

[Scoop Snoop]

Very poor analysis..  No rational person would say this was "a great game".  It was poorly played by both teams on a myriad of levels.  A competitive game doesn't make it " a great game".  It was a heavy dose of poor fundamentals, coaching, execution, and shot making.  The USA missed about 15 chippies, kicked the ball away, and shot an abysmal percentage.  They were very fortunate pbi saved them.  And the game also could have used Caitlin Clark.  It was asinine she didn't make the team and not based on her name, but her game.

The funniest part of your post is you challenging anyone in regard to rationality.  That's rich! 

As usual, you focused on the negatives, on how the teams failed your very lofty, strict standards, how the refs tried to give the game to the French, how your analysis is perfect and anyone who disagrees with you is, by definition wrong, that we should have won by a much larger margin, etc. 

[Scoop Snoop]

I really enjoyed the game, loved that a talented U.S. team had to work so hard to earn that gold medal. So much drama and such a gut-check.

They got major contributions from some who hadn't played much, especially Kahleah Copper. Sometimes that's what it takes even for great teams like this to win.

Hey, Muggsy disagrees with us. I'll delete my post if you agree to delete yours. Deal?

[wadesworld]

Very poor analysis..  No rational person would say this was "a great game".  It was poorly played by both teams on a myriad of levels.  A competitive game doesn't make it " a great game".  It was a heavy dose of poor fundamentals, coaching, execution, and shot making.  The USA missed about 15 chippies, kicked the ball away, and shot an abysmal percentage.  They were very fortunate pbi saved them.  And the game also could have used Caitlin Clark.  It was asinine she didn't make the team and not based on her name, but her game.

You must not have watched much women's basketball in your life. There are a lot of turnovers and a lot of misses on what NBA players would almost never miss.

[MU82]

Hey, Muggsy disagrees with us. I'll delete my post if you agree to delete yours. Deal?

Nah. More fun driving Muggsy mad!

[JWags85]

You must not have watched much women's basketball in your life. There are a lot of turnovers and a lot of misses on what NBA players would almost never miss.

Yea, it's just a different brand of basketball.  Playing fully below the rim means many more missed no footers, less brute physical strength means more fumbled/missed passes especially down court or whipped cross court, and there are more missed long jumpers.  It just is what it is.  Sometimes it's sloppy and bad, sure, but comparing it to an elite NBA game to deem it a certain way is a fools errand.

I thought the first half was pretty brutal basketball.  Some good defense, sure, but grinding to a 50 point first half is ugly. But the second half was really good, competitive awesome basketball

[MuggsyB]

Yea, it's just a different brand of basketball.  Playing fully below the rim means many more missed no footers, less brute physical strength means more fumbled/missed passes especially down court or whipped cross court, and there are more missed long jumpers.  It just is what it is.  Sometimes it's sloppy and bad, sure, but comparing it to an elite NBA game to deem it a certain way is a fools errand.

I thought the first half was pretty brutal basketball.  Some good defense, sure, but grinding to a 50 point first half is ugly. But the second half was really good, competitive awesome basketball

Ty JWags for your  honest analysis.  I don't watch a ton of women's hoops, but I've seen enough to know that the 1st half was utterly brutal/horrific basketball.  Sloppy, unorganized, flat out atrocious, and difficult to watch.  The 2nd half was better for sure. .  That said, in prior games USA shot a much, much, higher percentage, and didn't look like they had never seen ball pressure before. 

[The Sultan]

Very poor analysis..  No rational person would say this was "a great game".  It was poorly played by both teams on a myriad of levels.  A competitive game doesn't make it " a great game".  It was a heavy dose of poor fundamentals, coaching, execution, and shot making.  The USA missed about 15 chippies, kicked the ball away, and shot an abysmal percentage.  They were very fortunate pbi saved them.  And the game also could have used Caitlin Clark.  It was asinine she didn't make the team and not based on her name, but her game. 

Arike Ogubowale is the player sitting at home with the biggest gripe.

[BM1090]

Arike Ogubowale is the player sitting at home with the biggest gripe.

Yep. And she's super fun to watch too. Wish she would have been there.

[tower912]

42 pages later...

A good show.   One that is going to linger for a bit because of the Jordan Chiles controversy.

[The Sultan]

I don't think I have enjoyed an Olympics that much in decades. I love how NBC approached these games, outside of the celebrity shots. I truly don't care that Tom Cruise was in the stands watching WBB.

But that's just a small complaint from what I thought was a very nice production.

[Skatastrophy]

Gold Zone was a banger show. They should have repeated it at night too so I could catch it after work.

[Warriors4ever]

At breakfast yesterday we were talking about the Games, and agreed that they were most enjoyable, helped by the fact we were watching lots of stuff live. Made me wish I had gone, don't know why I didn't really, other than inertia.. they did a great job integrating Paris into the Games.